![]() I disconnect the drive and the memory totals switch up right away). But these changes in how much memory is consumed from one location to another happen in a matter of seconds (e.g. I have been looking at other people who report problems similar to these, so the one thing I will add is that I do use Time Machine, and I use the external drive for the backups. jpg files with the external drive not connected, I do find a few, but no way is it even 1 GB worth. If I try to open photos without the external drive there, I get an error message saying it can't find my photos. If I open iPhotos, it is just opening the library that is on my external drive. This is supposed to be a report of just the HD, right? Where did all of these photos come from and how can I delete them? I would be happy to delete them, but I can't find them. But why is the system file so huge? I have no way to manage how much space the system file is taking up.īelow is the report I get if the external drive IS connected. But the report of WHERE the storage is used changes dramatically.īelow is the report I get if the external drive is NOT connected - it makes sense to me, because I (am pretty sure that I) deleted all the photos from my MacBook Air. ![]() Regardless of whether the external hard drive is plugged in or not, the system report suggests that I only have between 8 and 10 GB available out of a total of 120 GB available. I finally discovered something very strange is happening with the system file and my external drive. I feel like I hardly have ANYTHING on my computer, but I am still getting low disk space notices. I continue to have trouble with disk space, and have been scrubbing and removing things as much as possible. I am using a MacBook Air, running on OS Sierra version 10.12.6 I ran into trouble with disk space, so I moved all photos to an external drive (Porsche, 2 TB), and deleted all photos from my MacBook Air.
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